Are you sleeping as the ten virgins (Mat 25:5)? Or are you awake?

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Are you sleeping as the ten virgins (Mat 25:5)? Or are you awake?

• Pro 19:15 -> “Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.”.

In order not to sleep, the person needs to be embedded in a good work before the Creator. The laziness (get involved in bad things) makes people sluggard even to eat (they eat junking food or wish that someone feeds them in the mouth):

• Pro 19:24 -> “The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth.”.

Sleeping spiritually is jeopardous:

• Pro 6:9-11 -> “How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
• Pro 24:33,34 -> “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.”
• Pro 20:13 -> “Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty; open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.”.
• Pro 23:21 -> “for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.”

Only brings poverty and shame spiritual:

• Pro 10:4,5 -> “A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.”.

And the worst is that the person can become addicted:

• Isa 56:10 -> “His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.”.

So, have a good day living the following verses so that Christ can shine on you:

• Eph 5:14 -> “for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Rom 13:11,12 -> “Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.”.